Scratch an Aussie is a funny and biting critique of the lingering colonial mindset and prevalence of racist stereotypes against Aboriginal people in white Australian society. This satirical work is filmed and presented as a series of therapy sessions in which young, white, blonde, and bikini-wearing women and men undergo psychoanalysis with Bell as psychiatrist. Broken English is a provocative look at the gulf that exists between the Aboriginal and white communities’ understandings of modern Australian history, beginning with the arrival of British explorers on the continent. In The Dinner Party, Australia elects its first Aboriginal president on a platform promising a radical redistribution of wealth, and a group of wealthy whites react to the news by unknowingly applying double standards and expressing outrage over the situation, thereby perpetuating racist stereotypes. Bell appears in these clips as a trickster who exposes the falsehoods in social constructs, while the Aboriginal activist and scholar Gary Foley also stars as a representation of outspoken political consciousness behind a comedic facade.
